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2024-01-29 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 28, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:35 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg considers it appropriate to invite Ukraine to the Alliance “at a certain stage.” According to him, every sovereign nation has the right to choose its own path. The Secretary General also believes that Putin’s victory in Ukraine will be an encouragement for other authoritarian regimes: “Today it is Ukraine, tomorrow it could be Taiwan... Therefore, it is a good thing for us, for the United States, to support Ukraine, and also at a certain stage to invite them to become a full member of the Alliance."
21:19 The Russians are attacking the Poltava region for the second day in a row - according to preliminary information, an industrial facility in the Kremenchug region is again hit, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin.
20:11 The leader of the Romanian party of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), Claudiu Tarziu, wants Romania to annex part of Ukraine: “We, as always, are at a fork in the road, and we must deal with these great empires in order to gain our sovereignty and make it whole. We will not be truly sovereign until we reintegrate the Romanian state within its natural borders... Northern Bukovina cannot be forgotten. Southern Bessarabia cannot be forgotten. The land of Hertz, Transylvania, everything that was and is the Romanian nation must return within the borders of one state."
Tarziu also stated that he was “ready to sacrifice Romania’s membership in NATO by annexing the territories of Ukraine.”
20:07 Trump called on Republicans to disrupt the agreement on border security and assistance to Ukraine, CNN reports. According to the publication, he wants to campaign precisely on these slogans in November and does not want Biden to win in this area instead of him. Senators from both parties are still trying to advance the proposal, but its fate remains uncertain.
19:26 France will provide Ukraine with 3,000 155-mm caliber shells every month, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Ivan Gavrilyuk said in an interview with NV. He clarified that these are shells for French artillery systems - self-propelled guns Caesar, TRF1. France will also transfer 40 long-range SCALP missiles to Ukraine.
16:03 The Russians fired at Mikhailovka, Berislavsky district, Kherson region - one person was wounded, the OVA reported. Another person was injured in Berislav as a result of an enemy drone strike. Over the previous 24 hours, one person was killed and two were injured as a result of Russian shelling.
14:32 The Ukrainian Armed Forces took fourth place in the list of the strongest armies in Europe, according to the Global Firepower rating. Great Britain took first place, Italy second, France third. The German army closes the top five.
13:38 An X-59 guided aircraft missile was destroyed in the Dneprovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Air Command reported.
11:09 At night, the Russians launched a missile attack on a residential area in the city of Mirnograd, Donetsk region - three people were wounded, including a 15-year-old teenager, the prosecutor's office reported.
10:21 In the Kharkov region over the past 24 hours, four people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OBA. One person was wounded in Volchansk, Chuguevsky district, another in the village. Cossack Lopan, Kharkov district, two - in the village. Podol Kupyansky district.
09:16 The leader of the Hungarian far-right party Mi Hazank, Laszlo Torockai, said that “if Ukraine falls, we will demand Transcarpathia.” According to him, pressure from “international financiers” led to the war in Ukraine, and “Ukraine was bought by BlackRock,” the world’s largest investment fund. Torotskai stressed that his party stands for an end to the conflict in Ukraine - an immediate ceasefire, peace and a negotiated settlement.
09:08 The Ukrainian fleet “would happily accept” two British warships that the Royal Navy will have to decommission ahead of schedule, said Navy commander Alexey Neizhpapa in an interview with Sky News. Britain is forced to decommission warships due to a shortage of sailors to man them. The frigates HMS Argyll and the recently refurbished HMS Westminster will be decommissioned this year.
“Of course, the Navy needs warships, because we understand that without ships there is no fleet. Therefore, if such a decision is made regarding the possibility of transferring two frigates to the Ukrainian Navy, we will be happy about it,” Neizhpapa noted.
08:36 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 28:
- personnel - about 382,110 (+740) people,
- tanks - 6280 (+9),
- armored combat vehicles - 11,671 (+19),
- artillery systems - 9097 (+12),
- MLRS - 972 (+0),
- air defense systems - 660 (+0),
- aircraft - 331 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 7041 (+4),
- cruise missiles - 1845 (+0),
- ships/boats - 23 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,103 (+31),
- special equipment - 1436 (+3).
07:47 Over the past 24 hours, 79 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 11 enemy attacks near Stepnoy, Avdeevka and another 17 attacks near Tonenky, Pervomaisky, Nevelsky, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, 14 attacks were repelled near Georgievka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, seven enemy attacks were repelled near Sinkovka, Tabaevka in the Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk region; on Limansky - 11 attacks near Ternov, Yampolevka, Torskoye, Donetsk region and Belogorivka, Lugansk region; in Bakhmutsky - seven attacks in the Ivanovsky and Kleshcheevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - three attacks south of Zolotaya Niva and west of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; on Zaporozhye - one attack west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region. The expansion of the bridgehead continues in the Kherson direction; over the past 24 hours, the enemy twice unsuccessfully tried to storm the positions of the Defense Forces.
06:38 At night, air defense destroyed four of the eight Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs that Russia attacked from the south-eastern direction (Primorsko-Akhtarsk), the Air Force command reported. The enemy attacked the front-line zone with drones.
In addition, the Russian Army fired two Iskander-M missiles at the Poltava region from the Voronezh region and three S-300 missiles at the Donetsk region from the temporarily occupied territory of the region. Civilian targets and critical infrastructure facilities were attacked in the Poltava, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
02:22 Greece agreed to the US State Department’s proposal to transfer or sell weapons to Ukraine in exchange for Washington’s assistance in the amount of $200 million, writes the Greek publication Kathimerini. According to him, Prime Minister Kyriakis Mitsotakis ordered the transfer to Ukraine of systems and equipment that are not used by the Greek army. In particular, Athens can transfer to Kyiv the Soviet air defense systems Tor, Osa, S-300, as well as Soviet-style ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns and shells for them.
00:49 In Russia, an engineer at the Almaz-Antey plant shot himself after the rocket he was working on killed his grandmother in Kharkov, Russian social networks write and publish a photo of a suicide note. In it, the man wrote that he could not live with the fact that the rocket to which he “had a hand” killed his grandmother in Kharkov.
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